MuniWireless

It seems the only person outraged enough to complain about the rising cost of text messaging and possible collusion (aka price fixing) among the carriers is Senator Herb Kohl, head of the US Senate antitrust subcommittee who sent a letter to four mobile phone operators (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile) which reads in part:

“Your four companies are the nation’s leading wireless telephone companies, collectively serving more than 90% of the nation’s wireless subscribers. Since 2005, the cost for a consumer…

According to Meraki, the mesh equipment provider, the iPhone now accounts for 20% of devices using the Meraki network in San Francisco, up from 6% a year ago. The company says that 150,000 devices have accessed the network, so that’s a lot of iPhones!

My take: not only are there more iPhones out there, but many people also prefer to use Wi-Fi given the frequent AT&T outages and the slow cellular network, which isn’t really optimized for heavy data use. Indeed…